The heart of the turntable
“Put your fucking hands in the air!” At a raging block party in the Bronx, one man stands out amidst smoke and flashing lights. That man is the notorious DJ Grandmaster Flash. Donning a large pair of headphones, he jumps from one vinyl record to another, scratching, cutting, manipulating and mixing never-before-heard beats, causing the crowd to go wild. Every so often, he reaches behind him to an overbearing stack of vinyl, frantically searching for the next record to throw on his turntable.
If only he had an iPod.
Nowadays, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any DJ lugging around a...
